History of the Reed family in Europe and America

328 WILLIAM EEADE OP WEYMOUTH,
6. Mehetabel, daughter of Rev. William, born June 20,
1785 ; married Jacob Deane of Mansfield, who descended
from John Deane in the following order : John Deane
came from Chard, in England, in 1636. He had a son
John, who had Samuel ; and Samuel had William ; and
William had John ; and John had Jacob, the husband of
Mehetabel Reed. Mr. Deane occupies the paternal estate
of his ancestors, which has been thus occupied for several
generations. The dwelling-house was built by one of them,
in the early part of the eighteenth century.
7. William Reed Deane, son of Jacob and Mehetabel
(Reed) Deane, and the eldest grandson of Rev. William
Reed, born in Mansfield, Aug. 21, 1809; merchant of Bos-
ton, and resides in Brookline, Mass ; married Abby Doggett,
daughter of Rev. Simeon Doggett of Raynham, Mass., May
22, 1834. Children, — William Roscoe, born in Boston,
April 15, 1835, lawyer in Chicago, 111. ; Samuel Blair, born
in Boston, Dec. 19, 1837, merchant of Lacon, 111. ; Abby
Weston, born in Roxbury, Sept. 28, 1839 ; Henry Ware,
born Dec. 1, 1847.
8. William Roscoe Deane, eldest great-grandson of Rev.
William Reed, and son of William Reed Deane and Abby,
married Ellen M. Underwood, daughter of Hon. Abel Under-
wood of Wells River, Vt., July 14, 1858. He is of the firm
of Stiles and Deane, attorneys-at-law, Chicago, 111.
7. Olive Reed Deane, the eldest grand-daughter of Rev.
William Reed and Mrs. Olive, and daughter of Jacob and
Mehetabel (Reed) Deane, born in Mansfield, Sept. 1, 1810 ;
died in Boston, Sept. 29, 1828.
7. Emily Deane, daughter of Jacob and Mehetabel (Reed)
children, from distant locations, after thirty-five years' separation as a whole, and
all in health, at the average age of fifty-four, gathered around her bier, at the old
homestead, to mingle their tears and prayers (for the last time as it proved), and to
lay her precious dust by the side of their honored and lamented father.